pavement

Other forms of pavement

plural

pavements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pavement

What does pavement mean?

pavement means "the paved surface of a thoroughfare". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pavement?

pavement has 2 syllables: pave-ment. The stress falls on "pave". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪvmənt/.

What is another word for pavement?

Close synonyms include paving, paving, paving material, sidewalk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pavement a common word?

pavement is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.